hotplug, hwdetect ? what are those lines at bootup :s ?

Hi all,

I'm just new to the Arch world after running Debian and Gentoo for 3 years and I think I found the distro I was looking for. Anyway, I'd like to speed up a little this boot as I did for gentoo with initng for example. I read some interesting informations on hwdetect which can replace hotplug so I did it Anyway it works (seems to by the way ) but as Arch boots, I still get these lines about my hardware you know, just before Arch Linux "logo" appears and then all the scripts indicating done when they did their task. I thought these lines were providing by hotplug but since I "replace" it with hwdetect, I don't understand from where they come Which script/program ?

Re: hotplug, hwdetect ? what are those lines at bootup :s ?

These lines are after the lines I talk about. Those are just after choosing Arch in Grub. It can be informations from kernel but it sounds strange to me (it takes 5-6s on my P4 3.2) I always thouht they were from hotplug or coldplug.

Re: hotplug, hwdetect ? what are those lines at bootup :s ?

Re: hotplug, hwdetect ? what are those lines at bootup :s ?

Zanton wrote:

I think you're right. I didn't think it was taking so much time to boot up kernel

It also takes a few seconds on my Pentium M 1.7GHz. You could try the initrd kernel in testing with a custom initrd26.img. It's smaller than the one in [current] repo so it should boot faster. To do so, enable the testing repo in /etc/pacman.conf. Also it would be better to move it at the end of the other repo if you don't want to use the other packages in testing. Then:
# pacman -Sy testing/kernel26
# pacman -Sy testing/mkinitrd
Don't forget to read the instructions in the wiki.

Re: hotplug, hwdetect ? what are those lines at bootup :s ?

Zanton wrote:

thank you snowman but I use ck sources so I don't know if I can make an initrd easily with your tool. I didn't try but it sounds good anyway

If you compile your own kernel, then initrd won't be much of use as you probably already compile the kernel with only the HD controllers/ filesystems you need. As I use the stock kernels, the new initrd kernel in testing let me get a relatively custom kernel without the hassle of compiling my own.